Hannah Israelsen LLC

Hey, I’m Hannah

I was born and raised in Logan, Utah. It’s the central city in a small Rocky Mountain valley. If you’ve ever watched Napoleon Dynamite, you have a pretty accurate picture of where I live because the movie was filmed here in Cache Valley, just across the state border in Preston, Idaho. Logan isn’t as podunk and quirky as Napoleon Dynamite makes the area seem, but I’ve got to admit the portrayal is pretty spot on for the smaller surrounding towns! I’ve always loved that I live in a place where driving a few miles in any given direction will take me up the pine tree studded canyon, or to Utah State University, or through patchwork quilts of farmland, or to the hospital or grocery store. While I loved the experience of living in a bigger city, Phoenix, Arizona, for four and a half years, Cache Valley has always called me home and I’m grateful to have recently moved back. I’ve always been a perfectionist and my eye for detail serves me well in my work as a commercial food photographer and stylist. When I’m not working, I love to go hiking and camping, draw or paint, play games with my family, watch Alfred Hitchcock movies, dream about traveling the world, and stay up really late lost in the pages of a book that I just can’t bring myself put down.

As for my family, I’m descended from several European immigrants (British, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Swiss, Norwegian, Danish) who joined the Mormon pioneers that immigrated to the Wild West during the mid-1800’s. I’m the oldest of a Brady Bunch-esque gang of siblings—three boys and three girls. My dad is an electrical engineer and my mom was an elementary school teacher before she started raising a gaggle of six curious, energetic kids. My parents are both very educated, hardworking, devoted to faith and family, and raised us to strive for excellence in all we do, while at the same time, loving us and being proud of us no matter what.